Frederik Fuuja Larsen (on the left) is an archaeologist, and Bianca Perren is a paleoclimatologist. Together they are trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the people of Wandel Dal. Photo: Arctic Hub This article by Sara Kirstine Hald was originally...
The ruins of a Norse house (Photo: Peter via Wikicommons CC BY-SA 3.0) Norse settlers living in south-western Greenland were able to rely on driftwood and native dwarf woody plants for building material for houses and ships and for heating, an Icelandic archaeologist...
This is how scientists imagine the fish-hunting orca ancestor Rododelphis stamatiadisi based on the fossil findings discovered by the international team: Image: Rossella Falen Orcas and false killer whales(Orcinus orca and Pseudorca crassidens) living today are known...
According to recent evidence, the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic were visited centuries before Europeans by South American indigenous people who left charcoal and bones of their hunted animals. Photo: Julia Hager The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic were...
Norcemgrotta in the municipality of Narvik is one of the two caves that the research team is examining for traces of prehistoric animals. Photo: Marius Robu Archaeological evidence of high latitude wildlife from before the last ice age is extremely rare due to erosion...